Ele.me is an online food delivery startup launched by two friends at Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University that recently won $1 billion in venture capital funding. Its name roughly translates as “Hungry Now?”

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The second in a series of podcasts supported by Mishcon de Reya has been launched on FT.com. The series, Financial Times World Tech Founders, will feature technology entrepreneurs in emerging markets. This episode features Hooi Ling Tan, the co-founder of one of Southeast Asia’s biggest start-ups, mobile ride-hailing service Grab. Grab operates in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,

The first in a series of podcasts supported by Mishcon de Reya has been launched on FT.com. The series, Financial Times World Tech Founders, will feature technology entrepreneurs in emerging markets. The first episode focuses in on the ‘India stack’, the digitising of identities and bank accounts, which two tech billionaires – Bill Gates and